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<h1>SCROFULA<br/>(GOITER)</h1>
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<h2>Introduction : </h2>
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Mostly, scrofula occurs due to lack of iodine. Some times, it occurs due to increasing thyroid gland too. In this case, the big or small swelling occurs on the throat or chin like testicles. It can occur due to many reasons.
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<h2>Symptom : </h2>
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Swelling occurs in 'vataj scrofula’. The patient feels pain as prick thorn in it. It is black in color, rough in touching and increases slowly-slowly. Sometime, it becomes matured too. The patient face becomes faded and throat and palate become dry in this disease.
<p>Where kaphaj scrofula occurs, there its color becomes like the skin complexion. It is heavy, some painful, big in shape, cold in touching and excessive itchiness. 
<p>'Medaj scrofula (which occurs due to obesity) is itchiness, offensive, yellow in color, soft in touching and without painful. Its root is thin and thick from upper side, which increases and decreases with the body. It keeps on hanging as tumbi. The patient face becomes oily as oil and he suffers from hoarseness too. 
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<h2>Meal and abstinence : </h2>
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Taking smoke, old red rice, old ghee, kidney bean, red horse radish tree, sespadula, bitter guard, digestive food and nutritive food is beneficial in scrofula.
<p>Milky food, sugarcane food, sweet and sour food, heavy and sweeter food stuff, fatty food and juicy fruit should not be taken in this disease.
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<h2>Treatment :</h2>
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<li> Take iodine salt with meals always, it provides very relief in goiter.</li>
<li> Apply oil of leaves and seeds of karjani and drip it in the nostril too, it provides relief in goiter.</li>
<li> Mix 1-2 grams powder of root of white megim with ghee and take it or rub powder of bitter fruit in the throat, it cures goiter. </li>
<li> Mix 6 grams ground root of megim (Which flower is white) with 10 grams ghee and take it for some days regularly, it cures goiter. </li>
<li> Apply paste of peepal of madar on the affected part to cure goiter.</li>
<li> Make a paste by grinding false calumba and oval leaved rose way together. Goiter is cured by applying it on the throat.</li>
<li> Mix ground root of castor (Which flower is red) with rice water (wash rice with water) and apply it on the affected part twice a day, it cures goiter.</li>
<li> Grind barrengtonia acutangula, seeds of hoarse radish and all medicines of dashmool on stone piece then heat it. After that, apply this mixture on the affected part is useful to cure goiter caused by gas.</li>
<li> Grind fine root of pudding pipe tree and mix it with water. After that, apply it on the goiter and throat tumor to cure goiter.</li>
<li> Fill water or wine in ripe fruit of round luffa and store it for one week. After that, take this wine or water, it is useful to cure goiter.</li>
<li> Mix ground root of red castor with rice water (Wash the rice with water) and apply it on the affected part, it cures goiter.</li>
<li> Make a poultice by grinding root of sun flower with garlic and tie it on the throat, goiter bursts after blowing but the patient feels pain in it thereafter it is cured. </li>
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